Know how this company is planning to make phones and everyday technology smarter

Innovation knows no bounds. Today's technology companies keep reminding us of this fact with their forward-looking products and technologies which aim to radically change the way live and work. Driverless cars, a bike that will never fall, wall format displays, smart newspapers, smart cards are some of the gadgets that one can expect to see in future.

Amidst all this, Cube 26, a tech startup in India is trying its best to make everyday tech smarter and better than ever before. Last year, Cube26 launched IOTA Lite, a smart bulb that can be controlled via a smartphone via an app. The idea was to make Thomas Edison's decades old invention hell lot smarter. It was not the first smart bulb; Philips has something similar on offer but albeit at a higher price. Another highlight of IOTA was that it needed no wore installations.

And now, the same company is planning to take cognitive intelligence to new heights in collaboration with IIIT Hyderabad. It will be a year-long project during which selected postgraduate and undergraduate students of IIIT-Hyderabad will come up with insights using which Cube 26 could build smart machines and cognitive systems for personalizing customer experiences.

When we asked Saurav Kumar, CEO & CO-founder Cube 26 what he aims to achieve via this collaboration, he shared some interesting insights. 'We want to build together technologies which not only add to consumers' overall experiences but also improve their quality of life. Our main focus area would be image search. We want our devices to read what's beyond the pictures i.e. if they have a camera using which they have clicked a picture of something, cognitive intelligence will help them search more information about that picture."

In another words, you would get to know where it was clicked, what is the history of that object and more. Not just this, Saurav also shared that his team is working on certain message and calendar apps where they will add cognitive intelligence experiences. So, what users can really expect out of all this? They can hope to see brain-inspired machine learning systems, intelligent connectivity, and more such technologies inside their living rooms. The future sure looks interesting.